Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton (5 April 1877-10 November 1916) was an American geneticist and physician who worked with Theodor Boveri to discover that germ cells and chromosomal counts are linked.

Biiography
Walter Sutton was born in Utica, New York in 1877, and he played basketball at the University of Kansas. after graduating from Kansas, he attended Columbia University, where he did graduate work under E.B. Wilson, one of the most prominent zooligists in the word, who studied grasshoppers. Sutton dsicovered that, as grasshoppers produced germ cells, their chromosome count increased. Sutton never finished his Ph.D., instead becoming a farmer and inventing a drilling apparatus. He later returned to Columbia and became a physician and surgeon, inventing surgical instruments. He served in the US Army Medical Corps during World War I and returned home to start his practice, but he died of appendicitis in Kansas City at the age of 39.